The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has issued new rules for reporting and recording injuries and illnesses that occur at work.
These new requirements require employers to track all work-related injuries and illnesses, summarize them at the end of the year, post those summaries, keep the records for a minimum of five years and report it to OSHA. Under the old rules, employers were not required to provide annual summaries and to post those summaries in a space visible to employees.
These changes went into effect on Jan. 1, 2015. Any company that has more than 10 employees is subject to the new requirements. While companies with fewer than 10 employees do not have to collect information about injuries and illnesses they do still have to report such injuries to the OSHA.
Injured At Work? Contact Illinois Workers Compensation Attorneys
At GWC Injury Lawyers, our workers compensation attorneys work hard to ensure that injured workers and their families get the financial settlements that they deserve.
Many employers and insurance companies attempt to deny the true extent of a work injury, if yourworkers compensation claim is denied, do not take it lying down.
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